Spending Zakah on Traffic Violations
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. If there is a person who has traffic violations and is unable to pay them, do they count as a debt, and can he be paid from the zakah?
The Shaykh:
If he is.
The questioner:
If there is a person who has traffic violations and is unable to pay them, do they count as a debt in his liability, and can he be paid from the zakah?
The Shaykh:
If he is reckless in driving, speeding, or not knowing how to drive and playing with the car, that is what leads to this; this is cooperation in sin and aggression. But if he has a fine without any recklessness on his part or any transgression in his driving, and he is unable to pay it, he can be helped from the zakah. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. If there is a person who has traffic violations and is unable to pay them, do they count as a debt, and can he be paid from the zakah?
The Shaykh:
If he is.
The questioner:
If there is a person who has traffic violations and is unable to pay them, do they count as a debt in his liability, and can he be paid from the zakah?
The Shaykh:
If he is reckless in driving, speeding, or not knowing how to drive and playing with the car, that is what leads to this; this is cooperation in sin and aggression. But if he has a fine without any recklessness on his part or any transgression in his driving, and he is unable to pay it, he can be helped from the zakah. Yes.
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من باب ما جاء فيمن يلازم بقعة بعينها من المسجد — islamhouse.com (1:08:53)
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